Leviticus 23:7
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On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
Read Leviticus 23:7 Using Other Translations
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly.
What does Leviticus 23:7 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Leviticus 23:7
In the first day ye shall have an holy
convocation
That is, on the first of the seven days of the feast of
unleavened bread, even the fifteenth day of the month Nisan; this
was separated from the other days of the festival, and more
particularly devoted to religions exercises, see ( Exodus 12:16
) ; ye shall do no servile work therein;
such as agriculture, or any manufacture or mechanical business,
which they and their servants were at other times employed in;
but they might bake bread, and boil or roast their meat, and walk
abroad, which they might not do on their sabbaths; and therefore
it is so expressed as to distinguish it from the work forbidden
on that day.
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